Jerusalem—James Graham

Three photographs of the city of Jerusalem, 1850s

3 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives (each approximately 200 x 253mm.), individually mounted on card, one signed with initials and captioned in the negative "Jerusalem from Olivet", ink or pencil captions on the mounts, a little spotting to images, mounts rather spotted, one mount with tears (not affecting image)

THREE EARLY PAPE♏R PHOTOGRAPHS OF JERUSALEM, comprising: "Jerusalem from Olivet" (caption in the negative), additionally ꧃captioned in ink "Jerusalem. South part of the city from the Mount of Olives ..."; "Jerusalem from the near the Bethany Road ..."; and "Jerusalem N[orth] E[ast] portion of the city ...".

Graham's photographs are "extremely rare as he never became a commercial photographer" (Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography).

James Graham (1806-1869) was a Scottish photographer and lay missionary who arrived in the Jerusalem in 1853 and stayed until 1857. His photographs of Jerusalem and the Holy Land are among some of th🤪e earliest paper photographs taken in the region, following the first calotypes of Jerusalem made by Rev. George Bridges in 1850. During his stay in Palestine, Graham photographed the region from Syria and Lebanon in the north to Egypt. He met the artists William Hol🍌man Hunt and Thomas Seddon who visited the Near East, and accompanied them in their journeys, taking photographs while they were painting.